I think that's how you spell the name of the Swiss city we're staying at tonight, anyway...
We started to the drive to Switzerland at 8 AM in Paris and arrive somewhere around 6 PM. Accounting for about an hour or two worth of stopovers, that's still a lot of time spent on the road. Worse still was that for the first part of the drive, the driver was trying to take "shortcuts" via country routes rather than the main highway. This meant a lot of twists, turns... motion sickness in other words. When we stopped for lunch at around 2, I ended up losing everything left in my stomach from breakfast. Ugh. Well, this is supposed to be the longest drive on this trip so I hope the subsequent drive to Italy won't be as bad.
Lucerne itself is a nice quite town. A river and some pretty straw-type bridges... very pastoral. I found the settings more intimate than the Seine on Paris. Probably because it hasn't been overly commercialized. That and I find a lot of Parisian "style" gaudy for my tastes, and also there's always this sense of danger there like in a lot of mixed cities (Oakland comes to mind as a good comparison) - there are warnings everywhere in Paris about beware of pickpockets or beware of being alone after dark etc. Switzerland, on the other hand, has an excellent record for saftely and it doesn't actually feel like it's dangerous to be out on the streets here after dark. Boring maybe, cuz it looks like stores close fairly early here, but not dangerous.
I packed away my camera this morning so wasn't able to get any shots of the town. Not sure if there will be time tomorrow morning. That's a shame, cuz this is my favorite place so far.
In other news. Tooth still aching. Someone suggested salt water. I think that's only made it hurt more. Owwwwww...
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